Articles tagged with: security
By Lee Rickwood
The biggest and brightest TVs out there — now called smart TVs — have Wi-Fi, Ethernet and high speed Internet connectivity, and each one is a potentially open door into not just your viewing habits.
By Hessie Jones
The new marketing meme, “Big Data” has captured everyone’s attention. The rise of social, online behaviour, user content generation, not to mention increased mobile activity, has contributed to a mountain of online datasets.
By Lee Rickwood
The potential financial costs of implementing the legislation – and the lack of clarity over who would pay that bill, and how – are seen as another good reason the bill came to an early end.
By Lee Rickwood
Sure, it’s great to share – in many ways, sharing is a core human activity. We can all learn and grow and gain insight equally, if and when information is shared equitably.
By Hessie Jones
In its quest to become more social…. correction….in its quest to be perceived as being social, Google has run into stumbling blocks. In the end the consumer loses out.
By Lee Rickwood
We are all players in the “Privacy Theatre”, living in an online world that shows only a pretense of privacy behind the curtain.
By Lee Rickwood
Hundreds of citizen journalists and videographer activists provided live video during the Occupations – streaming if not actually televising their ‘revolution’.
By Ted Kritsonis
Imagine having all your digital snapshots of your family, your vacations, your experiences — essentially your life’s memories, all gone because you never bothered to back everything up. The feeling of loss, especially over something you could’ve completely avoided had you cared enough to bother trying, is coupled with shame because making sure that all your data is secured multiple times is not hard — and proves a worthy investment.
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Since smartphones are quickly replacing PCs as the personal communication device of choice, the need to secure our mobile devices has become critical.
By Lee Rickwood
It may be one of the hottest tech topics today, but it is also a metaphor for things unknown, unseen or uncertain.
By Tim Teatro
It’s that time of the year again boys and girls! While we’re all caught up in the excitement of orientations, buying textbooks and decorating dorm rooms, it is important to give some thought to security. It only takes a little bit of time and care to ensure that you don’t become an unlucky statistic. Here are ten tips to keep yourself safe from common disasters that I see each year as a university TA.
By Lee Rickwood
These are much more than academic awards. Just a week after one award winning researcher notified Facebook about such attacks, the social net made significant changes to its online systems.
